Dr. Zane Berzina is a textile designer, artist, and researcher. She holds degrees from The University of the Arts Berlin; Master of Art in European Fashion and Textile Design from Southampton University, UK; PhD from the University of the Arts London and has widely participated in exhibitions around Europe. Solo exhibitions in Riga, Helsinki, Berlin and London. Zane Berzina lectures at the Goldsmiths College in London, Department of Visual Art and at The University of Arts Berlin, College of Design and Architecture, Institute for Experimental Fashion and Textile Design, Germany.

Prof. Joseph Tabbi is the author of Cognitive Fictions (Minnesota 2002), and Postmodern Sublime (Cornell 1995,) books that examine the effects of new technologies on contemporary American fiction. He edits the Electronic Book Review and has edited and introduced William Gaddis's last fiction and collected non-fiction (Viking/Penguin). He is professor of English at the University of Illinois, Chicago, and Director of the Electronic Literature Organization.